Best practise: FCKeditor in JSF/Woodstock Netbeans

Hi,

First I'm really impressed by FCK! excelent job!

I'm working to integrate FCK into a Visual Web Netbeans project (=JSF+Woodstock)
I know I could also use ICEFace as this already includes FCK, however ICE is not yet fully integrated as Woodstock is.

Ok here are my options, and I hope some one could give me some improvement to do this correct.

I have two implementations working (hope this helps others as well integrating FCKeditor)

1. I wrote a wrapper in the backBean of the JSF page.
In the backbean I added the following code:

Home.java:

public String getFckEditorHTML() {
       HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
    FCKeditor editor = new FCKeditor(request, "editorDefault");
    return editor.createHtml();
  }

Now in my Visual Web editor of Netbeans I simple add a Static text field, and bind that with the Page.fckEditorHTML (the function created above)
This works ok. The editor is available, however (as prob. I lack some knowledge here) The only way to get the text is to lowlevel pull it out from the "request like this:

HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
        String myPostedData = request.getParameter("editorDefault");

Advantage is: It's quick & dirty.
Problem: Data is lost as soon as a partial post is don on the page like a pulldown is changed or other..
The code actaly generates a hidden text field with an id in the output. If only I could use a JSF/Woodstock hidden text field for that I probaly would be able to bind to that hidden text field to read/set the data into the FCKeditor...
Question: How Can I keep the data that is in the editor when I do a partial post on the page? What do I need to do?

Option 2:
I use the taglib:

<jsp:root version="2.1" [b]xmlns:FCK="http://java.fckeditor.net"[/b] xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html"
    xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" xmlns:webuijsf="http://www.sun.com/webui/webuijsf">
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<FCK:editor instanceName="editorDefault"></FCK:editor>

Problem here again.. The data is not kept during partial posts, and the editor is not accessible from any of the Beans..
Also here, I need to pull the data out rather low level:

HttpServletRequest request = (HttpServletRequest)FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().getExternalContext().getRequest();
        String myPostedData = request.getParameter("editorDefault");

Any hints how I could do this in a more clean way so that any partial post will keep the data in the editor and not clean it out again?
Many thanks in advance!

Wessel